
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi(Author)
Penguin Classics;Penguin;Viking (Publisher)
Published on 25. April 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-241-98044-6 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Book Shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their fate reverberate through the generations that follow. Taking us from the Gold Coast of Africa to the cotton-picking plantations of Mississippi; from the missionary schools of Ghana to the dive bars of Harlem, spanning three continents and seven generations, Yaa Gyasi has written a miraculous novel - the intimate, gripping story of a brilliantly vivid cast of characters and through their lives the very story of America itself. Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portraits, Homegoing is a searing and profound debut from a masterly new writer.
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Language
English
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
227 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-98044-6 (9780241980446)
Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
06/2016
1st Edition
Penguin Books Ltd
€8.99
Available for download
Person
Yaa Gyasi was born in Mampong, Ghana, and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. Her first novel, Homegoing, was a Sunday Times bestseller, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Best First Novel and was shortlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. In 2017 Yaa Gyasi was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists and in 2019 the BBC selected her debut as one of the 100 Novels that Shaped Our World. Her second book, Transcendent Kingdom, was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and is a New York Times bestseller.